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ZUG, the official journal of the German Society for Business History (Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte), ranks among the top business history journals in the world. Founded in 1956 under the original title “Tradition”, it changed its name to ZUG in 1976, and added “Journal of Business History” to its masthead in 2006. This last change is indicative of the editorial board’s strong determination to provide a truly international forum. ZUG allows international historians to reach a large group of European scholars in business history, and it also provides an opportunity for international business historians to keep track of the latest research in Europe.

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Abstract

Economic historians focusing on macroeconomic approaches emphasise the importance of the Currency Reform in 1948 for the rapid growth of the West German industry in the post-war era, while other economic historians deny their significance. This highly controversial discussion is mainly caused by a lack of data, especially on the radical change of the workforce potential. This article aims to examine the significance of the Currency Reform from the personnel management perspective of one of the major West German enterprises. The investigation of a single enterprise allows the use of qualitative and quantitative sources that are not available on a macroeconomic level. The case of the Volkswagen Company shows what difficulties the management had to face to build up a core workforce in the immediate post-war time. It demonstrates to what extent the management was able to control their workforce and to steer the working process. The study also explains what strategies the workers developed in a shortage economy and which factors influenced their working output and quality. From these perspectives of business history the significance of the Currency Reform becomes much more clearer.